Tag: Congo Basin

  • Discover Africa’s last old-growth forests, the earth’s second green lung

    Discover Africa’s last old-growth forests, the earth’s second green lung

    From California’s towering redwoods and British Columbia’s Giant Douglas firs, there are approximately 1.11 billion hectares of primeval forest left on earth, with significant tracts found in South America’s Amazon rainforest. Africa, meanwhile, is home to just 8% of the earth’s old-growth forest, but it plays a vital role in climate control and is lauded […]